魏志真

魏志真 holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in composition from the University of Southern California and currently teaches at Chapman University in California.

She is active on stages around the world. Her work “Between Stream and Hills V - Odyssey” appears on a collection of viola works recorded by Professor 李筱珮, released by Centaur Records as Odyssey: New Music for Viola by American Women Composers (CRC 3332). Her piece “Farewell” (告別) is included on Ten Quatrains (十絕句), a solo flute album by 吳正宇 released by 禾廣 (TAS001), which was nominated for Best Interpretation at the 27th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music. Her arrangement “The Practices and Vows of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva — for Solo Voice, Chorus and Orchestra” (普賢菩薩行願品) was included by Dharma Drum Publishing on the album The Bodhisattva Path (菩薩行), which was nominated for Best Religious Music Album at the 27th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music.

魏志真 was also invited by the organizers of the Sound of Dragon Music Festival (2018) in Vancouver, Canada, where her large-scale chamber work “Clouds” (雲) was premiered by Canada’s Turning Point Ensemble together with the Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra. “Silent Illumination,” commissioned by Trifecta, was presented at ClarinetFest (2016), the Composer Society Conference in West Virginia, and the 9th New Music Festival at Marshall University. “Eastern Zen” (東方禪), commissioned by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, was premiered in the Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra’s chamber music series.

She has served as composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Chamber Singers, was a selected composer in the 2010 “Encouraging Composition” call of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra’s Music Composition and Promotion Platform, under the Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan, and was a finalist in the 2010–2011 NTCH Music Canon composition selection for Taiwanese composers. Since 2022, 魏志真 has studied jazz and other musical styles with David L. Wen, and in 2023 presented a concert of her own works spanning classical music, jazz, and Taiwanese folk song in both traditional and new forms, to an enthusiastic response.